Fairy Tale

Resumen del libro

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load.

His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her ageing master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard.

Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar.

Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars.

This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle.

Biografía del autor

Stephen King (Portland, EE.UU., 1947). Escritor estadounidense. Se ganó el favor de la crítica con su primera novela, Carrie (1974), a la que seguiría El resplandor (1977). Su estilo efectivo y directo, unido a su gran capacidad para destacar los aspectos más inquietantes de la cotidianidad, le han convertido en el especialista de literatura de terror (aunque ha realizado también incursiones en el género fantástico y de ciencia ficción) más vendido de la historia. Autor a su vez de relatos y guiones para la televisión, muchas de sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine. Sus obras han sido traducidas a más de cuarenta lenguas.